Jill Clough

Jill Clough is a former teacher and headteacher who is now fulfilling her teenage ambition to write fiction. She has lived in the Lake District for more than 20 years and never wants to leave. Nearly all her novels are set in Cumbria.

Her first published novel, Morph, won the Lakeland Book of the Year Award, Fiction in 2019. Anna and the Snake Queen came out in 2020, If Dreams Should Die, published in 2022, was longlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Award in 2023. The Making of Cassie Clearwater, published 2024, was Runner-up for the Lakeland Book of the Year Award, Fiction, in 2025. Also published in 2025, Anna and the Shrivelling; Blood Runs Cold (set in North Cornwall). In 2026 expect Another Kind of Music (sequel to If Dreams Should Die) and Through a Glass Darkly